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Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written : the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts

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Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written : the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts


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Topics Landscape gardening, Landscape architecture, Manors
Publisher London : Printed by T. Bensley ... for J. Taylor ...
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Contributor Getty Research Institute
Language English
Cover title: Repton on landscape-gardening and architecture

Reprint: first published 1803

Repton utilized material from his "Red Book" presentations prepared for clients and cites over 100 locations (p. [15]-16, preliminaries)

Many of the hand-colored plates have overslips to show proposed changes in the landscapes. Two plates are tinted. Portrait of the author engraved by W. Holl after a drawing by S. Shelley as frontispiece. Dated plates read 1802. Numerous drawings, engravings (vignettes) and diagrams within the text. Repton credits his son, J. A. Repton "for many valuable ornaments to this volume" and for his architectural expertise

Archer, J. Brit. domestic arch.

Abbey, J.R. Scenery

Notes

No table of contents. Foxing. Some illustrations are shot twice to show what is beneath their illustrated flaps.

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